On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 10:17 -0800, Bob Kinney wrote: > --- John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Simon Slater wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Just a question to satisfy my curiosity. When booting sendmail takes > > > a very long time to start. This happens in FC6 but even longer in F7 on > > > a new laptop. I'm watching it now and its been 7 minutes so far. Done! > > > Sendmail finished in 9 minutes and now sm-client ... is ... finished > > > in ... 4 minutes. The rest boots quite quickly, less than 2 minutes for > > > everything else. All mail is done through another box. This is not a > > > problem, allows plenty of time to make some tea and get a slice of cake. > > > > > > > If you ever get tired of the opportunity to have morning tea and a > > natter while the computer gets started, you might get around to checking > > that networking is starting properly, you have fully functioning DNS or > > an alternative. > > > > -- > > > > Cheers > > John > > I have had that problem, too. It seems that sendmail requires a complete > hostname (with a domain) and sort of sits on its hands for a long time > before timing out and continuing. > > So in my case, I named the computer "name.localdomain", and updated the entry > in /etc/hosts for my machine to > 127.0.0.1name.localdomain name localhost.localdomain localhost > where the last 3 items are aliases and thus will work for probably any > program's needs. As you have found out it hangs until it can the address of the machine. -- ======================================================================= It's useless to try to hold some people to anything they say while they're madly in love, drunk, or running for office. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
